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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

ISBN: 9780451191144
Release Date: 30 Jan 1997
Average rating: (read by 252 members)

Categories: Science fiction

Published in 1957, "Atlas Shrugged" was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel, she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction to the philosopher who becomes a pirate to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, "Atlas Shrugged" is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.

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	JenAg
	Rated it 1 months ago

My all time favorite book! I have read this book about six times over the years. I love it.

	chford
	Rated it 3 months ago

This kind of book that causes the reader to define themselves, either following the books' path or against. There's really not too much middle ground.

	HJDaugherty
	Rated it 3 months ago

Classic. And probably her best.

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